Hainan Airlines Launches Calabash Brothers Safety Video
By Joy Wong, China Aviation Daily | Feb. 19, 2015
Hainan Airlines (HU) has launched a brand new safety video -- "The Adventures of Calabash Brothers" -- to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year of the Goat, also known as the Spring Festival, which falls on Feb. 19.
The Haikou-based carrier said it will initially introduce the latest safety video on board its Boeing 737-800 planes (without Sky Interior cabin) on the airline's domestic flights (excluding Xinjiang routes) from the Spring Festival.
Calabash Brothers was one of the most popular Chinese animation TV series. The safety instruction was demonstrated by the characters of Calabash Brothers - an old man and seven brothers, including Big Brother (Red), Second Brother (Orange), Third Brother (Yellow), Fourth Brother (Green), Fifth Brother (Cyan), Sixth Brother (Blue) and Little Brother (Purple). Each has a unique supernatural ability such assuper-strength, enhanced hearing and sight, invisibility, and pyrokinesis, as well as a weakness.
The video shows the adventures of the seven calabash brothers and their grandpa who fight with a Scorpion spirit and a Snake spirit during their journey.
Hainan Airlines said it hopes to provide customers with innovative visual experience by launching the new safety video.